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Find out what our students, faculty, and staff are being recognized for.
Stephen Cunha
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Geography professor Stephen Cunha contributed a chapter on “Agricultural Settlement and Landuse” to Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions, published by UC Press. Cunha draws on experience from six continents to show how mountains pose distinctive problems for human settlement and land use. The vast corn and wheat fields blanketing gentler topography, such as the American Midwest and Argentine Pampas, are absent here. In their place is a more intricate pattern of crops and animal husbandry that reflects adaptation to vertically compressed environments. The differences are especially sharp between high and low elevation, and the windward versus leeward mountain slopes.
Ryland Karlovich, Talisa Rodriquez, Miles Ross, Matthew Eiben, and Amelia Egle and Dept. of Geography Faculty Members
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Ryland Karlovich, Talisa Rodriquez, Miles Ross, Matthew Eiben, and Amelia Egle and Dept. of Geography Faculty Members
In May, Geography students and faculty returned triumphant from the 67th California Geographical Society Meeting at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Over 400 academic, NGO, agency, and private sector geographers attended.
The ever-popular student research competition included students from four states and 31 institutions (including 13 CSU and 5 UC campuses).
1st Place
In the student research competition, senior Ryland Karlovich’s gained some identity by analyzing how England's Historic Counties are Losing Identity. Ryland continues this effort as a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh next fall.
Talisa Rodriquez’ year-long effort documenting Primary Succession and Edge Effects in a Northcoast Coastal Dune Habitat took home the Geosystems Award for the best undergraduate physical geography paper.
Miles Ross, Matthew Eiben, and Amelia Egle captured second place in Digital Mapping for their effort on The Geography of Hate: Placing Racist, Sexist and Homophobic Sentiment in Online Social Media. Their effort, prepared under the direction of Professor Monica Stephens, was published May 10th in The Guardian, one of the UK’s leading periodicals.
Eight other students presented a paper, poster or cartographic effort. Faculty members Matt Derrick (who presented a paper) and Stephen Cunha accompanied the students.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Matthew Derrick, assistant professor of Geography, was the featured guest on the most recent "Research on Religion" podcast. The hour-long discussion focused on Derrick's latest article, "Containing the Umma?: Islam and Territorial Question," which appeared last month in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. The podcast, which has 5,000 subscribers, can be accessed at http://www.researchonreligion.org/.
Sara Matthews, Kirsten Ray
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
The most recent issue of The California Geographer, a peer-reviewed journal, includes two articles by HSU Geography majors. The first, by junior Sara Matthews, is titled "How Space and Place Influence Transportation Trends at Humboldt State University." The second, by Kirsten Ray ('12), is titled "Cultural Clash in the Netherlands? Exploring Dutch College Students' Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants." Both articles started as projects within the Geography Department's research and writing courses.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Assistant geography professor Matthew Derrick's article "Containing the Umma?: Islam and the Territorial Question" was recently published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. A second article by Derrick, "Territory and the Changing Shape of Tatar Islam in Tsarist and Soviet Russia," was published in the most recent edition of the International Journal of Russian Studies, while his book review of "Nation, Language, Islam: Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement" appears in the forthcoming issue of Central Asian Survey.
Monica Stephens
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
The work of Geography Dept. faculty member Monica Stephens was featured recently in an article in The Atlantic. In "Where Do the World's Tweets Come From?," associate editor Rebecca J. Rosen, explores new research that graphically depicts 4.5 million tweets and their geolocations captured in March 2012. For the full article, including the map of the world's tweets, visit "The Atlantic":http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/where-do-the-worl….
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Assistant Geography Professor Matthew Derrick was selected as a grantee by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Program Title VIII to participate in its “Summer Workshop in Quantitative Methods” in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, this June. As a participant in the workshop, which is designed to enhance training in quantitative methodology and increase familiarity with existing data sets among scholars of the region with policy-relevant interests, Derrick will further develop an in-progress article examining the territoriality of religious temples in Russia. His research will be considered for inclusion in the SSRC Eurasia Program Title VIII Policy Brief Series.
Nicholas Klein-Baer
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Junior Nicholas Klein-Baer was one of 12 U.S. students awarded a fellowship by the Russian Geographical Society to conduct archeological fieldwork in Tuva, Russia. Nick will spend June 2012 at the "Valley of Kings" camp near Kyzyl, the capital of the Tuva province. His work will focus on salvaging cultural artifacts before the construction of a new railway connecting Kyzyl to the Kuragino transportation node in Krasnoyarsk. The international expedition aims to bring together Geography and Archeology students from around the world.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Assistant Geography Professor Matthew Derrick co-authored an article titled “A Splintered Heartland: Russia, Europe, and the Geopolitics of Networked Energy Infrastructure” in _Geopolitics_. The paper interrogates the geographical logic of Russia’s role as an energy provider to Europe by focusing on the provision of gas to Europe via Nord Stream, an underwater pipeline that went online last year. The paper describes a rapidly evolving networked space that effectively “splinters” the territorial integrity of the region and thereby complicates notions of Eurasian geopolitics that emphasize proximity, territorial hegemony and state-centric international relations.
Stephen Cunha
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Geography Professor Stephen Cunha has published a book chapter on the origin and worldwide diffusion of national parks. In it, he explores how the American idea of preserving wild landscapes took shape in 1864 when Yosemite Valley and a nearby grove of Giant Sequoias were set aside as Yosemite State Park. During the next century the idea of protecting and conserving natural environments spread over much of the world. Broadly speaking, parks and other protected areas of one sort or another are now found in 95 percent of the world’s countries.